San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 4/21/2010
HARRY H. McCOMB
A vineyardist who has been successful in his agricultural operations is Harry H. McComb, the owner of a thirty-acre vineyard four and one-half miles northeast of Lodi and three-quarters of a mile east of Dougherty Station. He was born in Jackson County, Iowa, on January 10, 1870, a son of Joseph and Martha (Livingston) McComb, both natives of Pennsylvania, from which state they removed to Iowa, and later to Nebraska, when they homesteaded a quarter-section of land. There were seven children in the family, as follows: William F., Flora B., Armenta D., Harry H., Fannie H., and two other children, who died in infancy.
Harry H. McComb received his education in the country schools of Nebraska. His agricultural training was also received in that state, on his father's farm. On March 1, 1892, he came to California and settled near Dos Palos, San Joaquin County, but had remained there only a short time when he went to San Benito County, where he worked on a ranch for the next eleven years. Then he removed to San Joaquin County, where he bought a five-acre peach and alfalfa ranch directly west of Lodi, on which he resided for two years, and then sold out and removed to Lodi. One year later he purchased twenty acres east of Dougherty Station. He continued to reside in Lodi until twelve years ago, and then removed to his ranch, and has since made his home there. In 1918 he purchased a ten-acre peach orchard lying east of his vineyard, on which he has installed a four-inch irrigation pump with a ten-horsepower motor, which is adequate for the irrigation of his thirty-acre tract.
The marriage of Mr. McComb occurred in San Francisco on April 16, 1903, and united him with Miss Julia Rivers, born in Hollister, a daughter of William and Katherine Rivers. Her father engaged in the stock business for many years, and then engaged in the teaming business in San Francisco. Mrs. McComb passed away in 1907. Fraternally, Mr. McComb is a member of the Modern Woodmen and the Improved Order of Red Men, of Lodi.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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